Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmonsis an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
life waiting found
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
essence violence aberration
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
passion brain crowds
The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
pain things-in-life interesting
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.
leadership political age
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
law being-ignored habit
Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
insanity mind would-be
If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.
self design humanity
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.
art drunk quality
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
book abandoned finished
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
fall serious-illness black
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
book ideas shadow
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.
absurd seems
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
mean reality thinking
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.